A Congressional Candidate Feared by the Tech Oligarchs

If I were a voter in New York’s 12th Congressional District, a recent attack ad against the candidate Alex Bores might make me think twice about considering him. Bores, a 35-year-old member of the New York Assembly, is a reliably progressive candidate in the coming Democratic primary to succeed the liberal stalwart Jerry Nadler, who is retiring. But the spot, paid for by a political action committee called Think Big, points out something seemingly sinister in Bores’s past: A former data scientist, he led a government team at the tech giant Palantir until 2019, while the company was working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “ICE is powered by Bores’s tech,” says the ad, as anxious electronic music plays and images of paramilitaries in the street flash onscreen.

The people behind Think Big know that........

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